|
Brief |
issued by
org. / institute |
statement/review/comment |
remark |
|
AFP - The running mate of Taiwan
opposition presidential candidate James
Soong claimed he had come under
attack from "electromagnetic waves"
launched by a local intelligence unit. The highly secretive bureau was not
immediately available for comment.
|
<AFP>, France, Dec. 1, 2011 <Yahoo> UK & Ireland, Dec 1, 2011
<Bangkok Post>(Thailand), Dec. 3, 2011 |
Dr. Lin Ruey-shiung (Soong's running mate): "If I hadn't quickly moved out (of
my home), I would have lost my mind," and alleged
that the "attack" by the National
Security Bureau started on September 20,
2011
outside his home and lasted three days. |
reported by all local media in Taiwan.
Taiwan's“The National Security Bureau": ... has not
owned the alleged technologies, nor have we used
equipment to harass the alleged targeted person”Dec. 6
2011, Yahoo news.
|
|
Taiwan presidential race darkened by
charges of intelligence service monitoring of challenger
|
<Washington Post>,
January 3, 2012
<Associated Press>,
January
2, 2012
|
Taiwan president race darkened by spying charges;
Taiwan’s presidential
campaign has taken a dark turn, with the opposition
challenger accusing intelligence services under the
control of incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou of
tracking her campaign events for political
advantage. The allegations — unproven and denied
by Ma — conjure up memories of Taiwan’s unsavory
one-party past, when Ma’s party, the Nationalists,
used their total control of the state apparatus to
persecute opponents. While the island has since
morphed into one of Asia’s most dynamic democracies,
many senior civil servants may still believe that
serving the top political echelon involves cutting
corners. |
|
|
complaints about unfair competition and concerns about Beijing's interference
were present throughout the presidential election campaign. |
<Freedom House>,
Washington D.C., USA, Jan. 20,
2012 |
(1) some criminal law is kept and can be used for suing reporters and internet
blog writers, may against Taiwan's press freedom.
(2)Taiwan's overall rating remained the same as last year 2011 and the
Washington-based group pro-democracy watchdog highlighted last Saturday's
presidential elections in its Freedom in the World 2012 report. |
Taipei Times, Liberty Times, head-page, Jan. 21, 2012 |
|
Taiwan's rank on Freedom of Press ( freedom of Information) : 45th. ps:
Taiwan's rank in 2008 is 36th. |
Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), Reporters without Borders, France Jan
25, 2012 |
Press freedom Index :
New Zealand No.13, Japan No. 22, Australia
No.30, South Korea No.44, Taiwan No.45, USA, No.47, HK No.54 US extra territorial
No. 57,
China No.174
|
Apple Daily News, Jan. 26, 2012
Taiwan's rank in 2011 : No.48 |
|
Taiwan's bribery index
drops 5 positions within 3 years since 2008. |
<Transparency
International>,
Germany, Nov. 2, 2011 |
◎ Taiwan ranked
(19th) in the lower half of TI's 2011
“Bribe Payers" index, finishing
19th among the 28 countries surveyed
◎ Taiwan fell
from 14th place in the index released in
2008, when 22 countries were
scrutinized.
◎ The
Berlin-based organization asked 3,016
business executives in 30 selected
countries how often companies in the
countries polled engaged in bribery.
|
reported
by editorial, Apple Daily
news,
Taiwan News, etc,
Taiwan.
|
|
Taiwan received a grade of 6.1 [on a
scale of one to 10] on the corruption perception index ( Asia's ranks : New
Zealand 9.5, Singapore 9.2 , Hong Kong 8.2, Japan 8.0). |
<Transparency
International>,
Germany,
Dec. 1, 2011
|
Taiwan ranked 32 on the corruption
perception index ranking released by Transparency International, but still
lagged behind some of its more economically advanced neighbors, such as Japan
and Singapore.
To improve Taiwan's rank, the government must launch a long-term education
campaign to raise citizen awareness of the values of clean politics and
governance, besides, the government and the legislature must be more cautious in
handling issues related to government officials' special allowance funds, etc.
|
|
|
With an overall score of 25 on
the annual report’s zero to 100
scale, Taiwan dropped one spot to
48th
from 2010.
Taiwan’s scores
have declined
three years in a row.
|
Freedom House ,
Washington D.C., USA
May 2, 2011 |
In the Freedom of the Press world survey Washington-based watchdog
organization Freedom House.
Taiwan's press freedom in 2010 was
ranked 47th
among all nations, slipping three
spots compared to 2009.
Taiwan's
rank :
2008 - 32nd ,
2009
-
43rd ,
2010
-
47th ,
2011 - 48th |
Freedom House, a Washington-based
non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom
around the world. |
|
Taiwan declined in UK's
Democracy Index: Taiwan's rank 37 in
2011, rank 36 in 2010 |
Economist , UK (2011) |
Democracy Index : No.38 Slovakia, 39: India, No.1~9: Norway, Iceland,
Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Swiss, Canada, Finland, Netherland |
Global Peace Index: taiwan rank 27(2011), 35(2010),
37(2009), 44(2008). |
|
Taiwan was criticized over issues to
do with the
death
penalty, freedom of expression,
justice and migrants' rights. |
Amnesty International, London, UK, annual report The State of the
World's Human Rights 2011, May 13, 2011 |
Amnesty International Taiwan deputy secretary-general Yang Tsung-li
criticized the government, saying it used a lack of public consensus as an
excuse to uphold capital punishment. The executions last year were carried out
one day after a hearing on the issue, and the executions in March came less than
one month after Ma offered an apology to the family of Chiang Kuo-ching (江國慶),
who was found to have been wrongfully executed
The report also criticized Taiwan's government for what it said was its
failure to deliver on promises to amend the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) that
limits citizens’ rights to assembly and free speech.
It also voiced concerns over the slow progress to enact a judges’ act to
address corruption scandals involving high court judges and over the working
conditions of migrant workers.
|
also reported by Taiwan's media ― Apple Daily news
(Chinese language) and Taipei Times (English) |
|
81% of Taiwanese have
little faith in judiciary:
Poll
The highest % in Taiwan's history |
Sep. 7, 2011
according to the survey conducted by the National Chung Cheng University. |
Four out of every five Taiwanese have serious doubts about the island's judicial
system following a string of scandals and controversial rulings... About 81
per cent ... did not believe judges had the skills to reach fair
decisions,... Sixty per cent... had no confidence in a special anti-graft
government body, the Agency Against Corruption... set up after three senior
judges were indicted for taking bribes in exchange for not guilty verdicts. The
judges were later sentenced to up to 20 years in prison. |
The Straits Times, breaking news, Taiwan's Apple Daily,
9/7/2011 |
|
There were still problems with
corruption, violence and
discrimination against women and
children, as well as human
trafficking. |
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, issued
April 8, 2011 |
(1) officials & police corruption.
(2) Violence against women, including
rape and domestic violence, remained a "serious
problem.
(estimated that
the total number of rape, spousal rape was 10 times the number
reported to the police,
- 6818 rape/sexual
assaults were filed till Sept 2010, till
Nov. 2010, 91457 family violence, 22089 children abuse cases were filed. )
(3) judicial authorities remained
“dismissive” of complaints of sexual harassment in the
workplace.
(4) Child abuse continued to be a widespread problem. sexual
abuse was more prevalent than the public realized, with the
estimated number of victims reaching approximately 20,000
annually, while only approximately 3,000 were reported.
(5) foreign-born spouses were targets of discrimination.
(6) abuses of foreign workers.
(7) authorities increased their placement of advertisements
packaged as news reports in local newspapers and television.
(8) trafficking in persons
|
reported by Taiwan's media at April 9, 2011 |
|
Taiwan's corruption index :
among Asian & Pacific countries,
Taiwan is behind Singapore (No.1),
HK, Australia, Japan, USA, Macau
(Macao)
|
POLITICAL & ECONOMIC RISK CONSULTANCY LTD (HK based),
March 22, 2011 |
(1) Founding that : most serious corruption lies in Taiwan's top-position
leaders and government's metro./city reconstruction units. (2) Taiwan's
reform against corruption remains no good. |
reported by Taiwan's Apple Daily, Mar. 23, 2011 |
|
For the past two years, Freedom House has downgraded Taiwan's
rating in its annual report on global press freedom. Critics say
it's common for government propaganda to masquerade as 'news.'
|
the Christian Science Monitor, USA |
▼ ...many observers say that the
glitter of the island republic’s free press has been overrated, especially in a
highly commercialized news culture that is both deeply partisan and prey to
political favors.
▼The placement of advertising as news is only the “tip of the
iceberg,”
▼One example of creeping government influence is the media's
minimization of criticism of government policies and
exaggeration of its achievements, says Guang, who teaches
journalism at National Chung Cheng University.......“Taiwan’s news media are not yet independent,” says Guang.
“Can the public really accept this?”
|
Jan 3, 2011 |
|
Taiwan's "Freedom from
Corruption"
scores 56, which is
worst
since 2007 |
A joint project of The Heritage
Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. The
the Index of
Economic Freedom rankings on a 1-100
scale , Taiwan's economic freedom score is
70.8, Taiwan is ranked 7th in the Asia–Pacific region. |
|
January 12, 2011
(LT 1.21.'11) |
|
Executions of five men in Taiwan
condemned Five
executions spark concern in EU,
Germany |
<Amnesty International >
, London, UK,
press , Mar 4,
2011 |
More than 70 people remain on death row in Taiwan.
Family members are not informed about scheduled executions in
advance. They learn about the executions afterwards when they are
invited to collect the body from the mortuary.
|
<Taipei times>,
Mar 5, 2011 , The German government also
expressed concerns over the execution.
ps: the United Daily mentions Taiwan's media reported too much about
those prisoners' life details . |
|
Taiwan's
"Democracy Index" of 2010
declined |
UK's Economist Intelligence Unit (E.I.U.) |
(1) 2010: Taiwan's "Democracy Index" in retreat : Political participation (
sank
6.67 to 5.56 points) & Functioning of government( points 7.5 down to 7.14); other
indexes like Electoral process & puralism, political culture, civilian liberties
have not moved up
(2) Asia rank : South Korea No. 20, Japan No.22, most Asian countries moved up
or remained same rank, i.e., S. Korea ranking from No.28 to No.20, Australia
10th to 6th, New Zealand 7th to 5th, Taiwan dropped 3 positions.
(3) World rank: No.1: Norway, No.2: Iceland, No.3 Denmark, No. 4 Sweden, No.5
New Zealand
|
Dec. 21, 2010
data from reports by Liberty Times and UK based EIU
web-site |
|
77% Taiwanese people think
Taiwan's corruption has not
improved, <the Liberty Times>
reported corruption index by
Germany based TI. |
<Transparency
International>, Germany,
Dec. 10, 2010 |
Taiwan's
corruption sorting list: worst
― Police: 3.9,
Parliament/legislation: 3.8,
Public officials/civil servants :3.8,
Political parties : 3.5, military:
3.4, judiciary3.3 , Media ,
Education systems : 3.2 ( Taiwan's
media have not given a complete report )
World
Corruption Index: Singapore No.1,
Australia No.8 (score 8.7), HK No.13
(8.4), Japan No. 17 (7.8), Qatar
No.19 (7.7), US No.22 (7.1),
Taiwan No.33 (5.8)
Taiwanese people
think in the past 3 years Taiwan's
corruption: stayed the same 35%,
increased 42%, decreased 23%
|
12.10. 2010 |
the report rated Taiwan's freedom of the media lower than the
previous year, on the basis of a controversy surrounding the country's
Public Television Service (PTS).
The heads of PTS were removed in last September amid concerns about the
independence of publicly-funded media. |
Freedom House 2011 report
Jan 13, 2011 |
Taiwan's political rights and civil
liberties remaining unchanged at grades 1 and 2, respectively. |
Freedom House, a Washington-based
non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom
around the world. |
Corruption in Taiwan
Confirming the
worst suspicions
|
The Economist, July 22, 2010 |
three high-court judges and a prosecutor
had been detained
amid allegations that they took
bribes to fix the outcome of a high-profile case The
significance of this case is
that it makes all the rumours (ps:
corruption in Taiwan's law field) a reality. |
7. 22. 2010 |
|
Taiwan
dropped 1 position in
judicial (Asia
& pacific)
ranking |
POLITICAL & ECONOMIC RISK CONSULTANCY LTD (HK based)
Asian Intelligence Reports Index (Dec.
1, 2010)
|
No.1
Australia, No.2: Hong kong, No.3: Singapore, No.4: USA, No.5 :Japan,
No.6: South Korea, No.7: Taiwan |
(1) issued at 12. 1. 2010 (2) reported
by Taiwan's media like SET TV evening news,
7:20pm, Dec. 2,
2010 |
Taiwan: Abolition of the Death Penalty in Taiwan: a
Further Serious Setback |
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT,
3 June 2010 |
Amnesty International is deeply disappointed that
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court has rejected a
petition to halt executions made on behalf of 44
death row inmates. The petition, filed by the Taiwan
Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), argued
that Taiwan’s application of the death penalty was
unconstitutional and violated the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Amnesty International considers the death penalty
the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
and a violation of the right to life.
Amnesty International urges the government of Taiwan
not to carry out executions and to make concrete
progress towards its long stated goal to abolish the
death penalty. |
By resuming executions the government in Taiwan is
out of step with global trends. Across the world,
more than two thirds of countries have abolished the
death penalty in law or practice and in 2009 only 18
countries were known to have carried out executions. |
|
Taiwan's "Global Peace Index" of 2010 ranks 35 |
Economist Intelligence Unit (E.I.U.) |
Global Peace Index of 2010 : Asian nations ―
New Zealand ranks 1, Japan 3rd, Qatar 15th, Australia19th,
Malaysia No.
22, Hong Kong No. 22, Singapore No.30, Laos No.34.
Peace Indicators ( 23 factors ) includes "Respect for human rights", "Jailed population",
etc
Related indicators (32 factors) includes "corruption perceptions", "political culture", etc
|
2010 |
|
One out of 4
serious problems ―
trafficking in
persons, US Country
Reports on Human Rights practices |
2010 Trafficking in Persons Report Taiwan (Tier 1)
Released by the U.S. Department of State,
June 14, 2010 |
Taiwan is a destination, and to a much
lesser extent, source and transit territory for men, women, and children
subjected to forced prostitution and forced labor.
Some women from Taiwan are recruited
through classified ads to travel to Japan, Australia, the UK, and the United
States for employment, where they are forced into prostitution. Taiwan is a
transit territory for Chinese citizens who enter the United States illegally and
may become victims of debt bondage and forced prostitution in the United States.
|
June 14, 2010 |
|
A Taiwanese
Co. employer
forced
three
Muslim
Indonesian women
to eat pork
(violate
Muslim religion) over a
seven-month
period.
Head line of the United Daily News ( Taiwan's major news) comments it
as "Inflicted serious damage on Taiwan's image". |
reported by the Jakarta Post (May 14, 2010), and some major world media
: BBC website, the Straits Times (Singapore), Associated Press, AFP, ABS-CBN TV (Philippines),
India Times, and DailyMail of UK, etc. |
Indonesian
government condemns
such action(
forced foreign-labor workers to consume pork)
as it was
against
appropriate
values,
calling upon
the
Taiwanese
government
to pay
“serious
attention”
to the case. |
According
to the
Taiwan media
and USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices 2010,
Taiwan has
always
abused
foreign workers. |
|
European Union condemns the executions of death penalty in Taiwan,
May 2010.
|
European Union |
(1) EU deplores the resumption of
executions (death penalty) in Taiwan. (2)
The European Union's strongly held view in favour of the
abolition of capital punishment is well known. The European Union
considers that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the
enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human
rights. |
(1) statement at May 1, 2010. (2) by the spokesperson
of EU High Rep. for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
(3) Taiwan urges the EU to delink death
penalty from visa waiver |
|
Taiwan's press freedom score :
24 (legal environment : 7,
political environment: 9,
economic environment: 8) |
Freedom House |
Norway and Finland score: 10 (legal
environment : 3, political environment: 3, economic environment: 4) |
Oct. 21, 2010 |
Taiwan dropped (47th 2010, 43rd
last year, 32nd 2008 ) in press freedom rating
|
Freedom House |
(1)
Taiwan ranked 47th on the
U.S.-based human rights watchdog body's 2010 global press freedom
rating, which was based on the findings of a survey on the media
situations... (2) Taiwan
declined four notches from its ranking of 2009, , declined 15 notches
from 2008. (3) No1 :
Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, No.11: New Zealand No.32: Japan, No.37
: Australia, No.24: US, (Macau or Macao not found).
(4) 35% are in free status.
|
(1)
issued
2010/04/30
(2) Apple Daily (May 1, 2010): money make
official propaganda become news.
(3) Liberty Times (May 1, 2010): We
declined, others improved. |
|
Taiwan's corruption ... a serious problem |
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, issued
Mar 11, 2010 |
major problems
(1) Taiwan corruption by
officials
(2) violence & discrimination
against women
(estimate total # is 10 times # reported
- 5305 rape/sexual
assaults were filed)
(3) trafficking in persons
(4) abuses of foreign workers
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/eap/135990.htm |
(1) issued March 11, 2010 (2) Apple Daily : bad things more than
good things
(3) US report: no official restrictions to peaceful expression
of views via the net, however, my computer has long time problem to
internet (till now, no evidence proved who or which nation did this)
|
|
Taiwan's corruption grade (6.28) is behind Asia & Pacific countries No.1
Singapore(1.42)、No.2
Australia(2.28)、No.3 Hong Kong (2.67)、No. 4 USA(3.42)、No. 5 Japan
(3.49)、No. 6 Macau(4.96)、No. 7 S. Korea(5.98), slightly better than No.
10 China (6.52) |
Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.(PERC),
corruption surveys 2010 |
Overall country risk ranking: 1.Australia(best
graded country) 2.Singapore 3.HK 4.Japan
(Nippon) 5. Macau (Macao) 6.
USA 7. Vietnam 8. Taiwan (backwards from 2009) |
Mar. 10, 2010 |
|
Taiwan corruption is worse
than China |
Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.(PERC),
surveys 2009 |
Both Taiwanese major political parties are
rotten. |
reported by all major media of Taiwan,
4.7.2009 |
|
Taiwan's politicians corruption
is
serious Among Asia-Pacific countries, Taiwan behind
Singapore(No.1), Australia, HK, USA, Japan, Macau, and South Korea |
Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.(PERC),
Mar. 2010 |
(1) Serious corruption in both political parties in
Taiwan
(2) Indonesia is the worst one in Asia-Pacific
region |
issued March 2010 |
|
Taiwan corruption Perception Index (CPI) in
2010 ranks 33rd in the world, 6th in Asia & Pacific |
Transparency International
(Germany based) |
(1)No.1 : Denmark, New Zealand, Singapore, No.8: Australia, No.13: Hong Kong,
No.17: Japan, No.19: Qatar... (2) Taiwan fluctuated between 25th and 35th
place from 1995 till 2007, dropped to 39th in 2008, bit moved back to 37th in
2009. |
Oct. 27, 2010 |
|
Taiwan corruption scores in 2009 CPI ranks no. 37, which is behind Dominica, Puerto Rico,
and Botswana.
|
Transparency International |
The highest scorers in the 2009 CPI are
New Zealand,
Denmark,
Singapore,
Sweden and
Switzerland (Swiss).
Hong Kong ranks 12th, Japan 17th, United States 19th.
Taiwan's <Corruption Perceptions Index>
score in 2009 is 5.6.
scores 2008 back to 2003 : 5.7, 5.7, 5.9. 5.9,
5.6, 5.7, so, Taiwan in 2009 is about the worst.
|
Nov 17, 2009
Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is the
world's most credible measure of of domestic, public sector corruption.
|
|
Press Freedom Index : Taiwan ranks No. 48 in 2010,
No. 59 in
2009 ( Japan 17th, Haiti 57th ), but ranked 36th in 2008, Taiwan dropped 23
notches (positions) in 2009. |
< Reporters
Without
Borders
>
, Paris France
|
Press Freedom Index
of
other Asia & Pacific countries like New Zealand (No. 8）,
Japan（No. 11）, Hong Kong（No. 34）, South Korea（No. 42）.
Top 5 are Finland, Iceland, Holland, Norway,
and Sweden. USA ranks No. 20, China No. 171.
|
Oct. 20, 2010
|
|
The biggest problems of Taiwan's legal system are: (1) political forces
involved
(2) system not independent |
Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.(PERC),
Sept. 2009 |
Taiwan's Legislation Yuan refuted it's not the fact. |
Sept. 22, '09 reported by the United Daily News (translation as left) |
|
Taiwan's Freedom of the press
(No. 43) declined seriously |
Freedom House 2009 |
(1) Taiwan's score : 23, ranks
43rd , same as Latvia, Slovakia, Suriname, Trinidad, Vanuatu. (2) Media in Taiwan faced assault and
growing government pressure.
(3) No.1 : Iceland, No.2 : Finland, Norway, No.4 : Denmark,
Sweden |
May 2009 |
|
Taiwan collects citizens' data
without any regulation |
The Association for Human Rights (Taiwan) |
(1) <Computer-processed Personal Data
Protection Law> has not been modified to a good version for a long time. (2)
Taiwanese privacy status just like <1984>. |
Liberty Times, Feb 22, 2009 |
|
Public media independence threatened, despite government denials
|
Reporters Without Borders, Paris, France |
Reporters Without Borders urges President Ma
Ying-jeou to keep his promises to us to respect public media
independence.
|
2008 Dec 17 |
|
More than 10 journalists injured during opposition protests
against Chinese visit |
Reporters Without Borders |
Reporters Without Borders deplores the violence against journalists in
Taipei in the course of protests against a visit by a Chinese government
representative during the past few days. At least 10 journalists were injured during
protests on 6 November by supporters of the opposition
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) against the meeting in
Taipei between President Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Yunlin, |
Nov. 8, 2008 |
|
Taiwan is a "Police State" |
the China Times visited Parliament member |
(1) Almost all members of Legislative
Yuan ( legislators are about same as Congressmen / Senators) and Parliament leader were
eavesdropped ... (2) Taiwan's People 're watched by
"secret-camera" , Taiwan becomes a "Police State" ... |
reported at Oct. 18, 2007 |
|
Most serious corruption :
Taiwan Parliament and
political parties |
Transparency Org. Taiwan |
Taiwan Corruption Index :
Parliament 78%, political parties 69%, Custom 61%, Military 48%, Police
45%, Legislative 43%, Power & Water 41%, Taxes 35%, Medical 32%,
Education 25%, Media 19%, Religion 16%, etc(Taiwan corruption is lousy,
Gallup 2006, Transparency Org. 2007 ) |
the liberty Times, Dec. 10, 2005 |
|
Global Peace Ranking declined |
the Economist EIU |
36th in 2007, 44th in 2008 |
United Daily News, May 21, 2008 |
| Freedom of Expression problem : The
Assembly and Parade Law
|
Amnesty International |
the Assembly and Parade Law
requires police permission to hold a public
demonstration and is used to suppress protests |
reports 2008 |
|
HR Problems :
(1) corruption by
officials,
(2)violence and discrimination against women,
(3) trafficking in persons,
(4) abuses of foreign workers
|
Country Report on Human Rights Practices, USA |
refer www.state.gov |
reports, Mar 11, 2008 |
|
Taiwan's human rights
|
United Nations |
http://www.un.org/en/rights/index.shtml
www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/56/a56193.pdf
|
|
|
Taiwan's "Happy Planet Index" ranks
84 |
New Economics Foundation |
out of 178 |
2006
ps: Taiwan "Life satisfaction" no longer count, latest
score of China is 6.7 |
|
Taiwan's
Satisfaction with Life Index ranks world no. 68 |
University of Leicester |
out of 178 |
2006 |
|
Taiwan's major media |
reviews
/ reports |
|
|
<Liberty Times>, <Taipei Times>, Dec. 9, 2011 |
Taiwan
Brain Trust published at Dec. 8, 2011 a report
claiming that Taiwan has moved backward on
human rights issues.
Former Minister without Portfolio Hsu
Chih-hsiung: the nation’s human
rights record has plummeted in the past
three years.
|
|
|
<Taipei Times>, Dec. 9, 2011 |
A survey conducted
by Shih Hsin University on behalf of the
government--affiliated Taiwan Foundation for Democracy,
showed the public ranked the country’s overall human rights
situation slightly higher this year than last year, but downgraded the government’s performance in protecting the
freedom of the press.
|
|
|
<Liberty Times>, Dec. 3, 2011 |
Liberty Times : "Taiwan's economic rights, judicial rights,
labor rights ― retreated the worst !"
The 2011
survey
conducted
by the
Taipei-based
Chinese
Association
for
Human
Rights :
Negative views: 61.4
%
of
economic
rights,
47.9% of
judicial rights, 45.5
%
of labor
rights.
Positive views: 61.5% of aboriginal rights,, 59.3% of politics rights, 54.6% of
the elderly rights.
|
|
|
<Apple Daily News>,
editorial , Sept. 23, 2011 |
"National
Sexual Prison "(「國立性煉獄」)
: What a shame on Taiwanese government !
So
many sexual harassment crimes , and sexual assault cases in
Taiwan,
...... far more than
the number reported by media, we can say
Taiwan has already became a society
hostile to the female. Shame on all Taiwanese,
particularly, shame on Taiwanese government...... |
|
|
Apple Daily news, may 14, 2011 |
Amnesty International : Taiwan's human rights
retreat, May 13, 2011
Taiwan's government <1> does not keep promise to modify the rallies law (for parade,
etc), <2> abuses of foreign labor, <3> corruption, <4> death penalty |
|
|
the China Times, Dec. 9, 2010 |
If Taiwan government really care Taiwanese
human rights, investigate again all wrongly-judged legal/political cases now !
|
|
|
Apple Daily, editorial, Dec. 10, 2010 |
(1) Taiwan's authority emphasized economy, paid less attention to
Taiwanese human rights...
(2) Taiwanese people ( except elites & leaders) give score 56 (total 100) to
Taiwan's human rights. |
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Liberty Times, Dec. 9, 2010 |
According to a survey concerning Taiwan's
democracy-freedom-human rights, generally speaking, Taiwanese ordinary people gave "F" score to Taiwan's
human rights overall performance &
democratic
freedom, 40 score to
judiciary
(independent judgment), 41 score to the judges and
government corruption. |
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the Liberty Times, Dec. 11, 2010 |
Taiwan's president Ma : The one
most easily hurt human rights is the government. |
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China Times, Oct. 11, 2010 |
DPP wanted to establish a human
rights committee in Taiwan long time ago... but KMT ( Taiwan's "Chinese
Nationalist Party" - an opposition political party)
stopped it again and again at that time... it's very weird that today KMT
suddenly wants to establish it ... |
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Liberty times, Oct. 11, 2010 |
Taiwan's human rights have been moving backwards,
the purpose of setting up a human rights committee is hiding ...
want to promote Taiwan's human rights? hope
Taiwanese government retracts its dirty hands everything will be fine ...
Human rights is the most important issue ...
, but till now KMT's Taiwan government just thought of setting up a human rights
committee (KMT won again its presidential election in '08)...
DPP was trying to set up a
human rights committee... but KMT (opposition political party) blamed it
on "black committee" (under-the-table committee), and asked Taiwan government to
dismiss the committee... |
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Apple Daily News, Oct. 11, 2010 |
Taiwan ... sets up a "human
rights committee".... bit late, ... short of ambition ... |
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Apple daily, China times,
United Daily, Liberty Times,
July 21, 2010 |
The new commission to fight corruption should learn from experience of HK
and Singapore |
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Apple Daily News, etc, Oct. 1, 2010 |
Legislators ( similar to senators or congressmen in the US )
blamed : "No human rights !!"
Taiwan striped a
Taiwanese for investigation while traveling from Macau (China) back
hometown Taiwan at Sept. 25, Taiwanese government has not apologized for
finding nothing guilty.
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the Liberty Times,
Feb 27, 2010 |
228 political event may returns |
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the Liberty Times, May 2, 2009 |
The freedom of Taiwan press
falls seriously - world
ranking downgrade from 32th to 43th |
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the Liberty times, Mar 10, 2009 |
Taiwanese ..., no Privacy ... |
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the China Times, April 12, 2009 |
In order to win elections, a number of
politicians again and again forced
some government officials to play the (drama) role of rotten officials or
privileged ranking people .... to set "examples"
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the United Daily News, Sept. 21, 2009 |
Taiwan's police usually
"suspect/doubt too much, investigate/find out the truth too little"... |
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United Daily News, Dec. 8, 2008 (prime news) |
We thought there's no dark corner in Taiwan, however, you will
find out the truth until someone infringes upon your human rights some day
... |
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Apple Daily, Feb 18, 2008
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Taiwan President should admit and publicize
numerous political ugly secrets, and political persecutions |
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the China Times, Oct 12, 2007 |
For winning political elections, Taiwan took "Think
highly of sovereignty , Think poorly of human rights " strategy |
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the United News System (MinSen Daily), July 17, 1995 |
All of us can be transparent ones , since too many unchecked
eavesdrops / bugs |
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the China Times, Jan 3, 2008 |
How come intellectuals disappeared ? ....
fewer and fewer people dare to speak out the truth against the power |
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the China Times, Jan 19, 2008 |
WEF & Gallup : 80% Taiwanese think political
circle not
honest |
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the United Daily News, Oct 12, 2007 |
Amnesty Int'l : Taiwanese think Taiwan's
Judicial (Justice/legal) is very rotten so as to locate
at
latter 1/3 of the world rankings. |
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